THE SCRIBBLER


This is a personal collection of poems, short stories and essays that I have written. They are about life......people.....love...... I will post my poems and other short stories from day to day, whenever my muse pays me a visit. Sometimes the work will be in English, and sometimes it will be in Spanish. My muse is also bilingual.

Esta es una colección personal de poemas, cuentos cortos y ensayos que he escrito. Hablan de la vida.......la gente......el amor...... Colocaré mis cuentos y poemas de día a día, cuando mi musa decida visitarme. Agunas veces el trabajo será en inglés, y algunas veces en español. Mi musa también es bilingue.



sábado, 8 de marzo de 2008

The Amazing Story of Rasup the Goat and Chetile the Unicorn

The forest was full of noises, of course, since it was home to all the creatures that made it their home. But one particular day something was brewing underneath the crisp and watery foliage of the trees. And there is where we find our character Rasup the goat prancing around like if tomorrow was only an adverb of time. He was a fine specimen whose life had left him with the scars to show for. In spite of everything, Rasup was a content, happy go lucky goat, going here, doing that, talking to everybody he encountered, restless but fun to be around.
From all the creatures that lived in this fabulous place, our goat had made a special friendship with a beautiful unicorn named Chetile. She was special because only unicorns posses a magical horn; besides, there were not many unicorns left in the forest. She was a rare specimen indeed. Chetile was kind (Did I tell you unicorns have a golden heart?) and would give her life in order to save another creature (That was the reason why there were not many unicorns anymore).
Rasup and Chetile enjoyed the company of each other and their friendship came to be a beautiful song that only the Quetzal could sing. Mind you, humans are not able to listen to the harmonious voice of that amazing bird. So life in that magical place was good, and Rasup loved Chetile and Chetile loved Rasup. They loved each other very much, and their love was real.
But sometimes we tend to take things for granted, and a goat can not help it but to be a goat. Chetile knew a secret place in the forest where she used to go and have plenty of food to eat and where the water had a sweet taste. She confided in Rasup about this secret spot and shared it with him. Rasup ate and drank from this hidden oasis; and instead of being satisfied, he started to look around other places were it was food and water also. I have to tell you, Rasup never intended to go to those other places, he only wanted to look around out of curiosity. Silly goat! Rasup knew very well that he had found the perfect place for him, and that place was with Chetile. That was the truth because his heart had told him so.
Chetile found out what the goat was up to and, with a broken heart, she felt betrayed by Rasup. She could not understand why Rasup have looked other places if she had provided him with the best of all places. Her heart was full of anger and mistrust. She told Rasup to go away. The goat could not find a rock big enough to crawl under. He knew he had made as big mistake, and tried to plea for forgiveness from the sad unicorn.
Suddenly their universe had turn upside down. Everything seemed uncertain.
What will happen next?
Rasup would not eat anything and cried the whole day thinking how he could have been so dumb. He was about to lose the love of his life for a stupid mistake.
The unicorn went to the top of the hill at night and stare at the bright stars.
Could her golden heart be able to forgive Rasup?
Will our Chetile find a way to trust Rasup again?
Was that mistake big enough to end that beautiful relationship?
I do not know the answers to those questions. Only Chetile did.

You see, the forest is full of creatures, and it is very noisy at times. As creatures we get distracted sometimes. I wish life was easy and scripted, but it is not. We write the script. So it is up to us, with all our imperfections, to try to make sense out of all of it.
What do I know?


THE END

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